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Respectable Roman women were portrayed clothed. This incident, which lead to suspicions of the Athenian general Alciabiades, provided Thucydides with a spring board to recount the story of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, two homosexual lovers credited by the Athenians with overthrowing tyranny. Yup - that's because the Ancient Olympic Games didn't have any medals or prizes. In Japan, public nudity was quite normal and commonplace until the Meiji Restoration.

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In Ovid's Metamorphoses: He also was the first adviser of the Thracian people to transfer their love to tender youths In this situation homosexuality came to the fore. In this Pankration scene, the pankriatiast on the right is trying to gouge his opponent's eye and the ref is about to beat the living tar out of him with a stick Photo: Jastrow [ Wikimedia ].